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John Law (Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana, attorney, judge, and representative)

b. 1796-10-28 d. 1873-10-07

Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana, attorney and representative. New London, County, Connecticut native. Son of Lyman Law and Elizabeth Law. Married to Sarah Ewing Law on November 28, 1822. Father of Richard Law, Ann Law, George Law, Caroline Law, James Law, and Ewing Law. Graduated from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1814. Prosecuting attorney of the State of Indiana from 1818 to 1820. Prosecuting attorney of the State of Indiana from 1825-1828. Member of the House of Representatives of the State of Indiana from Knox County, Indiana, from 1824 to 1825. Judge in the Seventh Judicial Circuit of Indiana from 1830-1831. Receiver of the land office in Knox County from 1838 to 1842. Judge in the Seventh Judicial Circuit of Indiana from 1844-1850. Judge in Knox County in 1850. Employed Benjamin Baxter and James Johnson as laborers in Knox County in 1850. Judge of the Court of Land Claims in Indiana from 1855 to 1857. Attorney in Evansville, Indiana, in 1860. Member of the Democratic Party. Member of the House of Representatives of the United States from Indiana from March 4, 1861 to March 3, 1865.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Indiana, Knox County, Vincennes p. 255A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Indiana, Vanderburgh County, Evansville, p. 636.

Theodore Parsons Hall, Genealogical Notes: Relating to the Families of Hon. Lyman Hall, of Georgia; Hon. Samuel Golden Parsons Hall, of Binghamton, N. Y.; and Hon. Nathan Kelsey Hall, of Buffalo, N. Y. New York: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1886_ (North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 Provo, UT: 2016), 111.

"Law, John," _Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, United States House of Representatives, Accessed May 19, 2023, https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/L000125

Citation

Law, John. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211401 (November 12, 2026).

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